TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sontag,Susan
TI  - On photography
SN  - 9780140053975
U1  - 77 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Photography, Artistic
N1  - In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- 
Melancholy objects -- 
The heroism of vision -- 
Photographic evangels -- 
The image world -- 
A brief anthology of quotations
N2  - Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral ans aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial , and they can be used as evidence against  us or to identify us. Here Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives
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